What does "boilingly" mean?
Boilingly: With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron. BOIS D'ARC Bois" d'arc". Etym: [F., bow wood. So called because used for bows by the Western Indians.] (Bot.) The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca). The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies. U. S. Census (1880).
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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